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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:31:59 CST
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- From: Leonard Watkins <ISTS024@UABDPO.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Epistemology 'R Us
- In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:12:40 EST from <MHB@MITVMA>
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- On Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:12:40 EST Michael H. Bloom said:
- >> Let's see the heavy metal tape was $4 .....hm...hm.....Does that mean they
- >> pay you $4 to listen to it or do you pay them $4 to listen to it.............
- >> either way you got ripped off...(just some lame humor).....:-)..L.W.
- >
- >Ipse dixit. Not only is it lame, Lenny, this is the kind of slope-browed
- >one-liner that gets you talked about.
-
- Bad publicity is better than none at all
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- >Methinks thou dost protest too much. Len, the first things I can remember
- >you saying when you first made yourself known to ALLMUSIC were that the
- >blues was the apex of human emotion and that you had to be black to play
- >it properly. As soon as you set up skin color as a prerequisite for some
-
- I never said that, i read an article that said that and i beleive i asked
- the group their opinion, my favorite blues guitar player is Duanne Allman
- always has been, with Stevie Ray a some-what distant second.. I would never
- say white people couldn't play the blues or can't have the blues....L.W.
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